Posts Tagged "Empathy"

Is Being an Empath Stifling Your Well-Being?

Posted by on Oct 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Is Being an Empath Stifling Your Well-Being?

Is Being an Empath Stifling Your Well-Being?

As an empath, do you feel you don’t have control of your emotions around other people? Do you feel like you’re a leaf in a hurricane emotionally throughout the day? Do you believe it’s good for you to feel everyone’s suffering and pain? As a sensitive or empath, we have high emotional responses to the energy around us as we tune into our environments all day. As a child empath, we are not taught how to manage all the energy we tune into, so we end up taking on other people’s emotions as our own. This disempowers us as it drains our life energy and it takes us out of...

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Are Narcissists Highly Sensitives Gone Bad?

Posted by on Apr 18, 2017 | Comments Off on Are Narcissists Highly Sensitives Gone Bad?

Are Narcissists Highly Sensitives Gone Bad?

Malignant narcissists: HSPs gone bad? Posted on June 12, 2015 by luckyotter The concept of malignant narcissism and HSP traits coexisting in the same person is a matter that has very little research behind it (I could find nothing at all on Google), so this article is based on my own opinions, gleaned through a combination of my readings and personal observations of the narcissists I have known. My opinion may come as a surprise. In my article A Match Made in Hell: Narcissists and HSPs, I wrote about the tendency for narcissists and HSPs to form trauma-bonds with each other–that’s really...

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Shame & Empathy by Dr. Brené Brown

Posted by on Jan 25, 2012 | Comments Off on Shame & Empathy by Dr. Brené Brown

Shame & Empathy by Dr. Brené Brown

I am discovering that to really be in your personal power it is required that you be able to be vulnerable in your connection to others. I used to believe being vulnerable was a quick death for any relationship but I got a lot of validation and a greater understanding of myself listening to Dr. Brown and I think you will too!

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